Security analytics and operations can be complex, requiring highly skilled professionals and detailed processes. To overcome these issues, security teams tend to deploy an array of security analytics tools and technologies to collect, process, analyze, and act upon growing volumes of security telemetry. Despite this investment, however, many organizations continue to find it difficult to manage cyber risk or detect and respond to cyber incidents.
How can CISOs address these issues and develop effective security analytics and operations processes? In order to get more insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 406 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) involved with the planning, implementation, and/or operations of their organization’s information security policies, processes (including purchase decisions), or technical safeguards and familiar with their organization’s collection and/or analysis of security data in support of information security management strategy